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Answer Wiki. The ionic charge of oxygen is -2. You can tell because oxygen is in group number 6, so it has 6 valence electrons. Since it needs 2 more electrons to become neutral with a full outer shell of 8 electrons, its charge is -2 (since adding electrons gives a negative charge).
This means that the neutral oxygen atom has 8 electrons. Here's a very, very cool picture of a model representing the oxygen atom As you can see, oxygen has 2 of its 8 electrons in the shell closest to the nucleus, and the remaining 6 electrons - which are called valence electrons - in its second shell - this is oxygen's outermost shell.